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This it is whose enemies he so vigorously combats the frivolous ignoramuses who have no soul for anything but debauchery; the sophistical theologian, to whom Helicon, the Castalian fountain, and the grove of Apollo were foolishness; the greedy lawyers, to whom poetry was a superfluity, since no money was to be made by it; finally the mendicant friars, described periphrastically, but clearly enough, who made free with their charges of paganism and immorality.
Your religion is in your dress; your religious orders, as you call them, have done the Church small service. What a thing it is to cultivate literature! Better far to grow cabbages. Bishops have thanked me for my work, the Pope has thanked me; but these tyrants, the mendicant friars, never leave me alone with their railing.
This is not the place to describe or discuss the more detailed suggestions with which he faced the great question of poverty and pauperism in the East-end; they are briefly summarized in a remarkable letter which he addressed in 1869 to an East-end newspaper: "First we must so discipline and regulate our charities as to cut off the resources of the habitual mendicant.
It is evident that after the mendicant monks began to prevail, from most false opinions and on account of gain they were so increased that all good men for a long time desired some limit to this thing. Although St.
The professional figures and those illustrative of character, which were sketched more broadly and farcically, bore the process of transference better than the polished figures of every-day life; but even of those delineations the Roman editor had to lay aside several and these probably the very finest and most original, such as the Thais, the match-maker, the moon-conjuress, and the mendicant priest of Menander and to keep chiefly to those foreign trades, with which the Greek luxury of the table, already very generally diffused in Rome, had made his audience familiar.
"On the next day in the afternoon, when my wife left our home to go to her brother's seeking news of me, she was addressed by a mendicant friar, who had even to touch her arm before she took notice, as she walked as a woman asleep mind lost in sorrow. "'Do not start; pretend to give me alms and take this ring which your husband sends. He is alive and well but a prisoner.
The most powerful instrument in his policy was encouraging and bringing round him, as dependents and followers, the members of the mendicant orders the labourers called to the vineyard in the eleventh hour, as he calls them. These he set to cater for him, and he triumphantly asks, "Among so many of the keenest hunters, what leveret could lie hid?
She was weary of this mendicant way of travelling, and could have been glad to have exchanged it for one more agreeable to the manner in which she had been accustomed; but then, when she considered how great a protection the appearance she made, had been from all those insults, to which a person of her sex and age must otherwise infallibly have been exposed in travelling alone, she resolved not to throw it off till she came to the place where she intended to take up her abode, at least for some time.
The man took the bag from the hands of the coadjutor, who heard the sound of his fingers counting and handling the gold pieces. "Ah! ah!" said the coadjutor, "you are avaricious, my good fellow." The mendicant sighed and threw down the bag. "Must I always be the same?" said he, "and shall I never succeed in overcoming the old leaven? Oh, misery, oh, vanity!" "You take it, however."
"Mother, Mother," she cried, "Bhatji did not give me the same blessing as he gave to my sisters-in-law," Her mother said, "Go back again and give him some more alms and see what he does," The little girl ran back, put some more alms before the mendicant, and again prostrating herself asked for his blessing.
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